Progressive Incumbent Faces Coordinated Attack From Democratic Leadership

New York’s newest congressional electoral map will pit incumbent moderate Democrat Rep. Sean Maloney against incumbent Progressive Mondaire Jones. Maloney is the chairman of the Democrat’s campaign committee, which is designed to protect incumbent Democrats by pulling the party’s resources together, not fighting against one. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sean-patrick-maloney-democrat-districts_n_62851141e4b0c7c1077b3835

"The first duty of any politician chairing one of the Democratic or Republican parties’ myriad campaign committees is to protect their party’s incumbents, whether they be state legislators, governors or members of the House of Representatives.

This means occasionally passing up an opportunity to pick up a seat, and instead spending time and money to protect a vulnerable member. It means helping those members with messaging, hiring key staffers, and spending thousands, if not millions, of dollars on advertisements to help them win reelection.

It does not, generally speaking and for obvious reasons, mean directly challenging one of those members in a primary.

But that is exactly what New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a veteran House member who now chairs House Democrats’ campaign arm, apparently decided to do this week after a court released potential new congressional maps in his home state.

“While the process to draw these maps without the legislature is against the will of voters, if the newly-announced maps are finalized, I will run in New York’s 17th Congressional District,” Maloney wrote on Twitter on Monday. “NY-17 includes my home and many of the Hudson Valley communities I currently represent.”"

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